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Thursday, 9 May 2013

The Mystery Project Completed

This is what it looked like last time I posted about it and this is what it looks like now:

I completed it while on holiday in the UK last week. The pattern for the flowers and vase is from the magazine cutting I'd
stuck into a scrapbook many many years ago so I'm not entirely sure
which magazine it came from other than that it's almost certainly a
Dutch ladies magazine so probably Libelle or Margriet. I changed the
colour of the shadow of the jug from the green that it was to a grey as
I'd stripped out the background and border that the magazine pattern
had. I added the butterflies from the "yellow butterflies biscornu"
pattern by Rainburst Embroidery as I knew they were going to look just
right with it. Once I'd completed it I realised that I'd made the lines
around the edges of the space with ballpoint pen (how silly can one
get?!) so I decided to hide the lines with 3 lines of backstitching, 2
in DMC colour variations 4045 and the middle one in 4150. I still have a
small section of ballpoint pen to remove but I am planning on trying
out ballpoint pen remover on it.